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05-19-2010, 05:11 PM
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The Hopetoun Quarry Murders
 In 1913, bodies of two children were discovered in the Hopetoun quarry near Edinburgh.The first execution in Scottland of the century smith boys bodies found Although the bodies had been in the water at least eighteen months, a man named Sir Sydney Alfred Smith was able to provide the police with vital information. He determined how much time before their deaths the two boys had eaten their last meal, proved that they must have walked to the quarry, and hypothesised that they had been killed by someone they knew. The two boys had never been reported missing, but Smith’s evidence led to the arrest of the children’s father, Patrick Higgins, and to The first execution in Scotland of the century. Smith, a committed scientist to the last, during this case Smith secreted away the heads of both children, a leg and an arm from each of them, and all their internal organs. He installed them as specimens in the Forensic Medicine Museum at the University, where they are still used as teaching examples of advanced adipocere - a form of decomposition that happens to dead bodies subject to moisture |
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12-09-2010, 07:20 AM
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Re: The Hopetoun Quarry Murders
Great post and very interesting. I feel bad because when I saw the title I was singing in my head - The Hopetoun Quarry sings this song doo dah, doo dah, the Hopetoun Quarry's 5 miles long oh da doo dah dey".
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